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Jewel & Medal Collection - Worcestershire Museum of Freemasonry
Gilt Medal: L’Olivier Écossais Havre 1829
Date:- 1829 - Classification:- Lodge/Chapter Etc.; Members
Country of Origin:- France -
Description
Some of these medals had a loop at the top, so that they might be worn as members’ jewels, attached to a ribbon with bar, upon which is inscribed the word “Wages.”
Obverse.—An olive tree, on the right of which is the five-pointed blazing star with G, and on the left the square and compasses. Legend, “ [ ] Ec.’. De L’Olivier Ecossais” (Scottish Lodge of the Scotch Olive). In exergue, “0.’. Du Havre 10 x 5829” (December 10, 1829), in two lines.
Reverse. Between two Ionic pillars, the one on the left inscribed with “B,” and that on the right with “J,” is an altar with seven steps, the front of which is adorned with the letter “M,” and upon its top is a three-branchedcandlestick with three lighted tapers. Over the candlestick is a circle of rays surrounding the All-seeing Eye in a small triangle, with the Hebrew tetragrammaton below it. On the right of the candlestick is the moon, and on the left the radiant sun. Legend (in spaces outside the pillars), “Charite Egalite.” In exergue, very small, “Depaulis.”
Properties
31 mm. Gilt Red ribbon
